Why a project narrative?

October 29, 2009 in admin

When Steve and Debbie visited us up in Carlisle a few weeks ago, we talked about all sorts of interesting project related things. During the conversation it occurred to us that we were forming useful perspectives on the University’s approach to OER based on the data that we had collected, and that we needed to record these ideas somehow. It was reminiscent of an e-learning benchmarking process we had gone through a couple of years earlier.

Following that experience we engaged in a Pathfinder project in which we recorded an informal project narrative throughout. This ultimately manifested itself in a summative ‘journey’ report that articulated our experiences as the project developed. We found this experience to be extremely useful and so we thought we’d give it a go again here.

Hopefully it will help us to understand and explore issues in our own context, and help feed forward into actions and evaluation of our activity. As previously mentioned, some of these reflections may include sensitive information, and where they do we’ll password protect the entry. You’ll need to contact the protect team if you want to read them.

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